I assume you know how to work google, its very easy to see where the big backers are for Cruz, and not surprisingly the are largely the same cast of characters who have given us every Republican candidate for decades.... You think Cruz is going to rock the boat on them you are naive....
But to get you started, here’s one of many examples that Cruz is the backed by the same money men that have owned the GOP for decades.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416643/meet-ted-cruzs-billionaire-donors-eliana-johnson
As to you inference that money in politics is the same now as 1980, it has always been part of the game, but there were no SuperPACs in 1980s.
Cruz cannot structurally change the system, because he is beholden to it. He can throw a lever, here or there, but no substantive or structural change would be initiated by Cruz any more than would be initiated by Clinton.
1. North Korea, just yesterday. threating to attack us with nukes
2.The Iranian's with their newly acquired 150 billion dollars -can simply buy nukes now!
3. Mullah Obama has already begun flying in his preset goal of 170,000 Islamic Muslim rapefugees! How many of these 170,000 will eventually beat, rape and murder our fellow Americans. How many of these 170,000 will arrive here - and eventually pull out machine guns on us.
4. The illegal mexican horde currently here and the illegal mexican hordes always enroute here -taking millions upon millions of jobs from Americans (white, black and hispanic Americans), swarming our schools, bankrupting our hospitals, raping and murdering fellow Americans. [and all the very slimy democrat politicians welcoming them -as potential democrat voters]
I'm voting for Trump!
But someone who contributes to Reid, Clinton and Schumer is going to oppose their programs. Who is naïve?
Someone who praises Planned Parenthood is going to become pro-life?
Who is the blind and naïve one?